This is part of a neural network evolution library named swirlnet.
swirlnet is similar to NEAT (NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies), but its feature set and behavior is somewhat different.
See the API.md file in the plain swirlnet repo for API documentation.
This swirlnet.util sub-module is licensed under CC0.
The authors of swirlnet claim no license over the networks, genomes and phenotypes evolved using this library.